2001 U.S. Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 15 - BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Sec. 394 - Overtime of employees engaged in enforcement of Meat Inspection Act

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to pay employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry employed in establishments subject to the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act of June 30, 1906, for all overtime work performed at such establishments, at such rates as he may determine, and to accept from such establishments wherein such overtime work is performed reimbursement for any sums paid out by him for such overtime work.

(July 24, 1919, ch. 26, 41 Stat. 241.)

Act of June 30, 1906, referred to in text, is act June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, 34 Stat. 670, which generally made appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The meat inspection provisions of that Act were not classified to the Code. For the “Meat Inspection Act”, see subchapters I to IV (§601 et seq.) of chapter 12 of Title 21, Food and Drugs.

Functions of Bureau of Animal Industry transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1947 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §301, eff. July 1, 1947, 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 952. See note set out under section 391 of this title.

This section is referred to in title 5 section 5549; title 21 section 695.